NYM @ PIT
Home plate: Todd Tichenor
“The catcher barely had to sell a thing.”
What this shows — how Todd Tichenor called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 139 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.23▲5 · 0-2 strike called ball
Marcus Semien vs Yohan Ramírez - 2-0.13▲2 · 1-0 ball called strike
Jorge Polanco vs Carmen Mlodzinski - 3+0.13▼9 · 1-0 strike called ball· challenged
Jake Mangum vs Devin Williams
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Rafael Flores Jr. — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Ronny Simon — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Luis Torrens — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.